Where have you gone, Ken Tremendous?

"When the Cubs signed him last year they thought he was gonna be a guy that could hit in the fifth spot, drive in some runs, but he has proven that he wasn't that type of hitter, he was a top of the order hitter, and I guess he proves that again because he swung at the first pitch and couldn't do much with it."

- Joe Morgan, after Kosuke Fukudome's first-pitch flyout in the bottom of the 2nd inning in the USA-Japan WBC semis game.

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March Madness 2: Bracket Boogaloo

Tuesday is my day for browsing teh internets while at work, because I teach every other block (of the four daily) starting with the first one. While perusing the web this afternoon, it seemed like every website had created some kind of bracket, as a result of what I can only imagine is people across the country catching a severe case of March Madness (likely contracted while watching Youtube clips of Duke players taking eleven steps and not getting whistled for traveling). Some were for culture, others for hot womens, and still others for names. And lo, I began pondering...

Has anyone put together a Best Bracket Bracket? How much work would that take? What would you say to the person who had the free time, desire, and specific form of dementia necessary to produce a Best Bracket Bracket?

Cave Living in Missourah

I don't know whether to be proud or embarassed:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_us/cave_home

It's Like Raaaiiiaaaaaain on Your Wedding Day...

It's the disappointment of realizing the reliance of 24's writers on recycled plot devices is killing your enjoyment of the show on the same day your copy of Baseball Prospectus 2009 arrives. The usual one-day 24 hour moratorium on details will be observed, with the exception of that link a sentence ago.

"Eeew! [Condoleeza Rice] looks like the black Chloe." - Brittney

So!

Maybe this is old news, but I just found this out:  So Taguchi is a Cub!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=5004

Juice 2: Electric Boogaloo

Random thought while reading Adam's post and seeing when my copy of Baseball Prospectus will ship: what are the false statistical numbers (not just the outlier seasons of guys like Brady Anderson and Luis Gonzalez) going to do to projection systems like PECOTA that rely on career paths of similar players?